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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is not officially released. You can download it from:

There are a number of news releases that IBM is starting talks about buying Sun Microsystems. You might remember, this is the company that Microsoft infuse a couple billion of dollars into a while back to help it along. (( okay, that might have been a legal settlement, but still that was billions with a 'b')).

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Our very own TheCPUWizard was mentioned in the story, Bellport businessman wins second award from Microsoft at Newsday.com. Also mentioned in the story is Codeguru.com. You have to read to the end to see the Codeguru mention.

Microsoft is not an Apple. Regardless, they are trying to play one on the internet. This week Microsoft announced more information on the Microsoft MarketPlace. This is a response – or reaction – to the success of the Apple Store.

When this question came up in a side conversation the Microsoft MVP summit, my initial reaction was that C++ is obviously the more mature language and that C# was a new language that was still "wet behind the ears." This conversation was with a person on the Microsoft C++ team, so the comment surprised me when they indicated that C# might actually be the more mature language.